Mg 4 headlights failed to come on

[siteguru]

Surely you'd know if your headlights were off? The darker than expected piece of tarmac in front of you should be a huge clue.

 

[Rudi]

That's not the case as you can not disable the daytime running lights and they turn off as well with the fault Also the mg4 dash is telling you that the headlights are on .

 

[Rudi]

You wouldn't know if they're off in a well lit area like a town but what confuses even more the car is displaying your headlights are on . But they're not

 

[fnegroni]

At the beginning of this thread we discussed the possibility this is linked to the ‘welcome lights’ setting being switched on
Perhaps you can try disabling that and see if it somehow stops the problem from happening again.

 

[Kithmo]

Just in case it happens to me, when this fault occurs does flicking the switch to off then on, or off then auto, not bring the lights back on ?

 

[mcdemondog]

Just in case it happens to me, when this fault occurs does flicking the switch to off then on, or off then auto, not bring the lights back on ?

Nope. Tried that with no luck. Stop, lock and restart sorted it.

 

[mcdemondog]

Surely you'd know if your headlights were off? The darker than expected piece of tarmac in front of you should be a huge clue.

As Rudi suggested below, it wasn’t really noticeable on a well lit road. As soon a I hit the M’way it became all too obvious. Again, it made it more confusing as the dash was saying all was working on auto.

 

[firstMG]

I had the same issue today. when I unlocked the car, the headlight went on. When I started to drive, the headlight went off, although dash is showing headlight is on.

lock and unlock didn't help, press and hold the home button to reset the car, the light still didn't go on. but after 15 secs or so, the headlight turned on itself.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

 

[Dan C]

Jesus, can mg just stop with the bad glitchy software. I had mine a year and the software still felt very much in Beta phase.

 

[fnegroni]

I had the same issue today. when I unlocked the car, the headlight went on. When I started to drive, the headlight went off, although dash is showing headlight is on.

lock and unlock didn't help, press and hold the home button to reset the car, the light still didn't go on. but after 15 secs or so, the headlight turned on itself.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Do you have the ‘welcome lights’ option enabled? If yes, try disabling it and see whether it ever happens again.

 

[firstMG]

Do you have the ‘welcome lights’ option enabled? If yes, try disabling it and see whether it ever happens again.

Yes, I do. If it happens again, I will try to that. Thank you for the suggestion.